Instead, listeners can expect lots of those good Hartke dissonances.

And listeners, increasingly accustomed to clear, wide-ranging sound in their living rooms, also expect more.

Then came the pronunciation of the name which listeners expected.

Or are they, according to the Mahler camp, a kind of contract, setting out what the listener can expect to hear?

Sykes said the structure of the album's songs were often not what listeners initially expected.

And what should listeners expect from the performances?

The first is given by "two universal formal hypotheses" describing what listeners expect.

What sort of direction or sound can fans (or new listeners) expect from it?

What our listeners expect from us is coverage of events that affect their daily lives: local politics, school board meetings, interesting personalities.

Many jokes are funny because they operate in one frame while the listener expects another.